“This famous memoir by John McCorkle, is the best published account by a scout who “rode with Quantrill.” John McCorkle was a young Missouri farmer of Southern sympathies. After serving briefly in the pro-Confederate Missouri State Guard, he became a prominent member of William Clarke Quantrill’s infamous guerrillas, who took advantage of the turmoil in the Missouri-Kansas borderland to prey on pro-Union people. McCorkle displayed an unflinchingly violent nature while he participated in raids and engagements including the massacres at Lawrence and Baxter Springs, Kansas, and Centralia, Missouri. In 1865 he followed Quantrill into Kentucky, where the notorious leader was killed and his followers, McCorkle among them, surrendered and were paroled by Union authorities. Early in this century, having returned to farming, McCorkle told his remarkable Civil War experiences to O.S. Barton, a lawyer, who wrote this book.”-Print ed.
The story continues from The Potato Farmer, only this time there is no quest, but an adventurean adventure among three fifteen-year-old cousins. One cousin, John Thomas, is an inventor who tries to harness the power of potatoes with every invention. Rufus has powers and abilities that he tries to keep secret for fear of what others might think and do to him. Encircled by a mystery, Abigail Omally enlists John Thomas to help her catch a prowler who seems to be searching for only one thing. Once the mystery is solved, a new adventure begins with the help of Rufus and John Thomas, and together the three cousins try to stop Sirus Defman (The Undertaker) from succeeding with his plans.
The old men from the pub would tell their tales of leprechauns, trolls, ogres and such. Sean Omally had heard every story that had been told, but he had never believed any of them. Sean was not unlike any other 16-year-old growing up in the 1860s. Living in Ireland meant that he was the son of a potato farmer, as was his father and his father before him. His days were spent plowing fields and planting potatoes side by side with his father. It was a simple life. A good life, but a hard life. Times were getting harder for the Omally family. Every summer the drought was worse and fewer and fewer potatoes could be harvested. The farm that had been passed down through the generations was now in danger of being sold to an Englishman. Sean fancied a young Scottish girl, Mary Kathryn of the Ruthiford clan. In the early evenings they would meet at their secret place. It was there that Sean made his intentions clear. He had no idea of the adventure that he was about to embark on as he journeyed to find the answers to saving the farm and proving himself worthy to wed Mary Kathryn. Sean finds the courage within himself to overcome a slue of creatures big and smalla] .Oh yeah. Sean may just change his mind about the old men from the pub and their stories.
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It all started with The Potato Farmer. Then there was Keeper of the Amulet. Once again the story continues. Abigail, John Thomas and Rufus find themselves traveling through a thick, prickly maze that can change at any given moment leading them to the dreaded aBlood Suckers, a but as long as they answer all the questions thrown at them correctly by a talking raven, they make their way from the nineteenth century to present day. Their mission is to find Sirus Defman, an evil warlock bent on controlling all that is evil and eventually controlling the world. With the help of Lorlock they train for the ultimate battle of good vs evil. If you like reading stories about witches, warlocks and vampires and other things that go bump in the night, read this book.
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The John McPhee Reader, first published in 1976, is comprised of selections from the author's first twelve books. In 1965, John McPhee published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are; a decade later, he had published eleven others. His fertility, his precision and grace as a stylist, his wit and uncanny brilliance in choosing subject matter, his crack storytelling skills have made him into one of our best writers: a journalist whom L.E. Sissman ranked with Liebling and Mencken, who Geoffrey Wolff said "is bringing his work to levels that have no measurable limit," who has been called "a master craftsman" so many times that it is pointless to number them.
Reporter Garth Ryland discovers that small towns can hide the most unusual crimes in this new mystery from the author of Hunting Ground. Garth is shocked to learn that his former lover never returned from an outing up north. And when Garth begins to investigate, he finds that old loves never really die and now both his heart--and his life--are up for grabs.
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